On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:07:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > looks pretty cool, but someone should talk to them about this: > > > > "The effect of this is that distribution-provided packages are often > > more reliable than upstream ones (since upstream don't get to hear about > > many of the bugs), and different distributions have fixed different > > bugs, with no coordination between them. With Zero Install, bugs get > > fixed upstream. So, the 'Debian developer' who currently fixes Gimp bugs > > would still do the same job, but as a 'Gimp developer' instead. Thus, > > the fixes would benefit everyone, not just Debian users." > > Yeah, that bit bothered me, too. They also have process problems: some of > their packages don't work any more (skype) due to upstream moving the original > tarball; some of them are buggy due to bashish (odfviewer)... > > But the technology's extremely nice, and works beautifully. It would be nice > if there was some way of combining Debian's process and infrastructure with > their package deployment technology... their primary requirement is that the > upstream tarball must be able to be installed and run from any directory, and > as user instead of root. Interestingly, rpms do this, and they can package and > deploy rpms more or less trivially. Can this be done with debs?
a deb is little more than an ar archive, as much as rpm is a cpio archive :-) if anything I though dpkg was further down the road of not executing arbitrary progs at install time, dunno Regards, Paddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
